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Pillars & Tongues Western States Tour Begins Today

If you live in the western portion of the United States of America, then Pillars and Tongues will probably be performing within earshot of your home this month. Scan the dates below and mark your calendar. This is the first Pillars and Tongues tour in the US since the release of Lay of Pilgrim Park, and it comes not a moment too soon. Rumor has it, they have already finished recording the next album.

Pillars and Tongues are a beautiful experience live. They have performed over 250 concerts in the past three years throughout the U.S., Canada, France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Each performance weaves composition and improvisation into unique golden braid. Be there… see it… and understand why they have been invited to tour with Bonnie “Prince” Billy and at other times perform with artists such as Nick Cave + Dirty Three, Bill Callahan, Sir Richard Bishop, Daniel Higgs, Chirgilchin, and many more…

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TOUR DATES
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Wednesday, September 1 – 7:00 PM
North Manchester, IN – The Firehouse – with TBA – FREE

Friday, September 3 – 9:00 PM
Bloomington, IN – The Bishop – with Elephant Micah – FREE

Saturday, September 4 – 8:30 PM
Nashville, IN – The Pine Room

Sunday, September 5 – 8:00 PM
Louisville, KY – Skull Alley – with Elephant Micah + tba

Monday, September 6 – 9:00 PM
Murfreesboro, TN – Trash Mt.

Wednesday, September 8 – 9:00 PM
New Orleans, LA – Allways Lounge – with Why Are We Building Such A Big Ship

Thursday, September 9 – 7:30 PM
Houston, TX – The Orange Show – with Listen, Listen

Friday, September 10 – 8:00 PM
Austin, TX – Annie St. Arts Collective – with Weird Weeds, Bosque Brown, Some Say Leland

Saturday, September 11 – 8:00 PM
Marfa, TX – Marfa Book Co. – with tba

Sunday, September 12 – 8:00 PM
Las Cruces, NM – Trainyard – with tba

Monday, September 13 – 8:00 PM
Taos, NM – Seco Pearl – with North America

Tuesday, September 14 8:30 PM
Albuquerque – Winning Coffee – with Hedia

Wednesday, September 15 – 9:00 PM
Flagstaff, AZ – Cottage Haus – with tba

Thursday, September 16 – 8:00 PM
Los Angeles, CA – Echo Curio – with Metal Rouge, Up Died Sound and tba

Friday, September 17 – 9:00 PM
Santa Cruz, CA – The Crepe Place – with tba

Sunday, September 19 – 8:00 PM
Sacramento, CA – The Hub – with Pregnant and Up Died Sound

Monday, September 20 – 9:00 PM
Chico, CA – 1078 Gallery – with Up Died Sound

Tuesday, September 21 – 8:00 PM
Nevada City, CA – Cafe Mekka

Wednesday, September 22 – 8:00 PM
San Francisco, CA – Viracocha – with Up Died Sound, Words, & Joseph Childress

Friday, September 24 – 7:30 PM
Prescott, AZ – The Raven Cafe – with tba

Saturday, September 25 – 8:00 PM
Albuquerque, NM – The Kosmos – with North America and tba

Sunday, September 26 – 8:00 PM
Santa Fe, NM – the Process presents at Little Wing

Tuesday, September 28 – 7:00 PM
Colorado Springs, CO – Modbo Gallery – with tba

Wednesday, September 29 – 8:30 PM
Denver, CO – Meadowlark Bar – with Princess Music

Thursday, September 30 – 8:30 PM
Lincoln, NE – Clawfoot House

Friday, October 1 – 9:30 PM
Grinnell, IA – Grinnell College Herrick Chapel – with tba

Saturday, October 2 – 9:00 PM
Iowa City, IA – White Lightning Warehouse – with Prince Rama and Skye Carrasco

Sunday, October 3
Daytrotter session

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Party Naked with Sonny & The Sunsets

Celebrating the immortality of “Tomorrow is Alright”

Sat. 8/29 @ 9:00 pm
Amnesia
853 Valencia St.
(Between 19th & 20th)
San Francisco

Sword + Sandals Record Release Celebration #1

THIS Saturday (8/21/2010) make your way to Amnesia in San Francisco to watch John Dwyer and Randy Lee Sutherland perform in the first of two events celebrating the release of Sword + Sandals’ debut studio recording, Good & Plenty, out soon on Empty Cellar. It is likely to rule.

Sword + Sandals
Asss (Portland)
Tussle
and some DJs for the after party

Sat. 8/21 @ 9:00 pm
Amnesia
853 Valencia St.
(Between 19th & 20th)
San Francisco

New Video: Elephant Micah with Mark & Beth of Pillars and Tongues

“This has endrunkened me with beauty.” – YouTube Commenter

This is a beautiful performance by Elephant Micah of “Still Life Blues” in New York City on WNYC’s Spinning On Air, broadcast May 16, 2010 during the Micah Elephant & Mark Trecka tour. Elephant Micah is is joined Beth Remis, fiddle, and Mark Trecka, harmonium, both of Pillars and Tongues. Video by David Garland.

Empty Cellar and Secret Seven at Vinyl In The Woods This Weekend

Empty Cellar is heading down to Big Sur this Saturday (July 3rd) with Secret Seven for the first annual Vinyl In The Woods record fair at the Henry Miller Library, co-sponsored by (((folkYEAH!))).

Described by the promoters as an all-day vinyl fair with a listening party, live music, surprise Rock’n'Roll movie, food and drink, and holiday weekend fun. It should indeed be… fun.

Henry Miller Library, Big Sur, CA
July 3, 2010, 11 am – 11 pm
$3 donation at door

In a press release, Magnus Toren, the Library’s Executive Director explained his longstanding love of vinyl as motivation for the event:

“When I was 14 years old in 1968 vinyl was the only way to buy music. I learned the English language through reading liner notes and translating lyrics because I was very interested in music. It’s nostalgia on one level and it also makes me think it’s too bad that young people now don’t get to have that.”

Babaloo, a Cuban food truck from Carmel Valley, will be providing eats, alongside many DJs and musical performances by Mystery Lights (Salinas) and SF’s Seventeen Evergreen.

Confirmed vendors at the fair include (in alphabetical order):

* Amoeba Records (SF/LA)
* B Music/Finders Keepers (LA)
* Burger Records (Fullerton, CA)
* Drag City (Chicago, IL)
* FutureRecordings (San Diego, CA)
* Vinyl Revolution (Monterey, CA)
* Vinyl Isle (Morro Bay, CA)
* Origami Vinyl (Los Angeles)
* Kemado/Mexican Summer (Brooklyn)
* Metamusic (Santa Cruz)
* Secret Seven (San Francisco)
* Empty Cellar (San Francisco)
* Plus many independent vendors too!

It will certainly be a rad time. If you are still need convincing, then check out this stirring promo vid:

Mark Trecka & Beth Remis on tour now with Elephant Micah

In case you missed our first post about this tour, we would like to remind all of our East Coast friends that Mark and Beth from Pillars and Tongues are now officially on tour with Elephant Micah, who we love. Check here for dates. …and pick up the Pillars and Tongues record, “Lay of Pilgrim Park” at our store.

Sonny Smith and the most ambitious project of all time…

(covers top-left to bottom-right by: Kyle Field (Little Wings), Chris Johanson, Scott Hewicker, Kyle Ranson)

SONNY SMITH: 100 RECORDS
April 9th – May 31, 2010
Opening reception Friday, April 9, 6 – 9pm
Gallery 16
501 3rd St
San Francisco

Live music by
Sonny and The Sunsets
and
The Sandwitches

In Gallery 16′s words:

Gallery 16 is pleased to welcome San Francisco based artist, musician and playwright Sonny Smith to his first solo show with the gallery. 100 Records is a dauntingly ambitious project that bridges his interest in art, music and dramatic form. Smith invited 100 artists to produce artwork for the record covers of fictional bands. Smith concocted the personas of each 100 fictitious bands, then wrote and recorded two hundred songs (the A side and B side) for each. All of the original artwork will be on display as well as a jukebox that plays all two hundred songs recorded by Sonny Smith and other notable musicians. Artists include, William T. Wiley, Mingering Mike, Chris Johanson, Reed Anderson, Jo Jackson, Harrell Fletcher, Chris Duncan, Tucker Nichols, Paul Wackers and 91 others!

…and in Sonny’s words:

This is a year long project that began at the Headlands residency last march. I’ve written 100 songs for 100 record jackets hand made by a shitload of artists. Also there will be a handmade jukebox to play all the songs. there’s gonna be a Volume 1 limited edition box set put out by Gallery 16 available for sale with some limited edition reproductions signed by some of the artists. This thing is a sight to be seen. Later in the year there will be a volume 2, 3, 4 etc.. Which is exciting and I will tell you more about
that soon enough.

100 records, 100 artists, 100 songs, 1 year, 1 opening, 1 jukebox, 1 you, 1 me, 1 gallery. My birth year adds up to 1 btw.

This project incorporates all that i’ve ever been working on all these years: literature, visual, music, collaboration, fictional characters.

It is my year of Individuation: those processes through which differentiated components become integrated into stable wholes. Coincidentally I couldn’t have completed this oneness without lots of people’s help.

So don’t be afraid to celebrate this oneness of one-of-a-kind togetherness/oneness with five or six glasses of (free) wine.!!!

…and in the immortal words of Endless Nest:

THIS RULES!

Keep your ear to the ground for beautiful limited edition 100 Records releases from Turn Up! and Empty Cellar records.

Read This Article or visit the Turn Up! 100 Records Blog for more information.

DON’T BE AFRAID

Mark Trecka & Beth Remis of Pillars and Tongues on Tour with Elephant Micah!

On the heels of a European tour with Pillars and Tongues, Mark Trecka took to the road as the drummer for Dark Dark Dark‘s SxSW tour, and on the heels of that tour… Mark and Beth Remis of Pillars and Tongues are departing on an East Coast tour with one of our favorites, Elephant Micah! Indian Summer, of Endless Nest, hosted Elephant Micah in San Francisco last month at a truly bomb show, and this tour promises to be just as bomb… if not bomberer?

Mark and Beth will be performing Mark’s solo material and a few stripped down versions of Pillar’s tunes. It will rule even though they are totally neglecting us on the west coast.

Mark Trecka (w/ Beth Remis) & Elephant Micah Tour Dates
See Mark Trecka’s page for more dates and details

Bonnie “Prince” Billy & The Cairo Gang Tour “Wondershow of the World”

Bonnie “Prince” Billy and The Cairo Gang are hitting the road on a one of a kind tour. They will be playing their Wondershow of the World (Drag City) jams where they get all bi- with each other (Emmett and Will wrote these songs together). This tour is the sh*t! Two intimate electricity-free concerts each night. There will be surprises. In the mean time… check out some old vids of the two performing Bonnie “Prince” Billy tunes at this post.

Bonnie “Prince” Billy & The Cairo Gang
TOUR DATES:

Empty Cellar Artists at SxSW

If you are at SxSW then make your way to one of the many shows that the Sandwitches and Sonny Smith are playing and show them some love. Empty Cellar artists Tim Cohen & Wymond Miles will also be playing several shows in the Fresh & Onlys, and Mark Trecka of Pillars and Tongues will be playing drums for Dark Dark Dark.

Oh yeah, and our entire catalog is available at Waterloo Records in Austin.

The Sandwitches SxSW Dates

Sonny Smith SxSW Dates

The Fresh & Onlys SxSW Dates